HaloDom: a new database of halophiles across all life domains.

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2018-01-15 eCollection Date: 2018-12-01 DOI:10.1186/s40709-017-0072-0

Alexios Loukas, Ilias Kappas, Theodore J Abatzopoulos

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Background: Halophilic organisms may thrive in or tolerate high salt concentrations. They have been studied for decades and a considerable number of papers reporting new halophilic species are being published every year. However, an extensive collection of these salt-loving organisms does not exist nowadays. Halophilic life forms have representatives from all three life domains, Archaea, Bacteria and Eukarya. The purpose of this study was to search for all documented halophilic species in the scientific literature and accommodate this information in the form of an online database.

Results: We recorded more than 1000 halophilic species from the scientific literature. From these, 21.9% belong to Archaea, 50.1% to Bacteria and 27.9% to Eukaryotes. Our records contain basic information such as the salinity that a particular organism was found, its taxonomy and genomic information via NCBI and other links. The online database named "HaloDom" can be accessed at http://www.halodom.bio.auth.gr.

Conclusions: Over the last few years, data on halophiles are growing fast. Compared to previous efforts, this new halophiles database expands its coverage to all life domains and offers a valuable reference system for studies in biotechnology, early life evolution and comparative genomics.

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HaloDom:一个横跨所有生命领域的新嗜盐菌数据库。

背景:嗜盐生物可以在高盐浓度中繁殖或耐受高盐浓度。它们已经被研究了几十年，每年都有相当多的报告新的嗜盐物种的论文发表。然而，这些喜盐生物的广泛集合现在已经不存在了。嗜盐生命形式有古细菌、细菌和真核生物这三个生命领域的代表。本研究的目的是在科学文献中搜索所有记录的嗜盐物种，并以在线数据库的形式容纳这些信息。结果:我们从科学文献中记录了1000多种嗜盐物种。其中，古生菌21.9%，细菌50.1%，真核生物27.9%。我们的记录包含了基本信息，例如通过NCBI和其他链接发现的特定生物的盐度，其分类和基因组信息。这个名为“HaloDom”的在线数据库可以在http://www.halodom.bio.auth.gr.Conclusions:上访问。在过去的几年里，有关嗜盐菌的数据增长迅速。与以往的工作相比，这个新的嗜盐菌数据库将其覆盖范围扩展到所有生命领域，为生物技术、早期生命进化和比较基因组学的研究提供了一个有价值的参考系统。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

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31.40

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1.10%

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312

审稿时长

2 months

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